Interconnection / Upgrade Requests
Process Description
PJM’s queue-based process offers developers the flexibility to consider and explore their respective business opportunities. While a developer can withdraw at any point, the process is structured such that each step imposes its own increasing financial obligations on the developer.
New Services Queue
Access generation and merchant transmission projects on the New Services Queue page.
Interconnection / Update Request Forms
The party submitting the interconnection request must include all such information required under the terms of the Open Access Transmission Tariff WEB | PDF and as further delineated in PJM's M-14 series of manuals | M14A | M14B | M14C | M14D | M14E | M14F | M14G WEB.
View request forms and instructions.
Governing Documents
M-14 series of manuals | M14A | M14B | M14C | M14D | M14E | M14F | M14G WEB describe specific business rules under which PJM effects the entire RTEP Process including the details associated with the scope and procedures associated with the planning process methodologies, analyses and development of proposed upgrades.
PJM's Open Access Transmission Tariff WEB | PDF describes the interconnection request process for generating resource interconnection, merchant transmission interconnection as well as specific process provisions to address long-term firm transmission service and auction revenue rights as well.
Applicable Transmission Owner Technical Requirements & Standards
Developers must adhere to applicable transmission owner technical requirements and standards. These include engineering design requirements and standards; equipment specification and suppliers; construction requirements and standards; and, engineering, procurement and construction process requirements and standards
Learn more about transmission owners design, engineering and construction guidelines and standards.
Regional Transmission Expansion Plan (RTEP) Report
PJM's RTEP Report is published annually by PJM to convey the results of planning studies throughout the previous calendar year and to explain the rationale behind why transmission system upgrades are needed. The report discusses system drivers, reliability criteria violations and upgrades for reporting purposes to facilitate greater RTEP understanding.
A complete list of all approved RTEP upgrades, a brief description of facility and driver, as well as, construction status is available.
The activities of the Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee provide the primary stakeholder forum for the ongoing exchange of ideas, discussion of issues and presentation of RTEP upgrades.
Stakeholder Groups
Sub Regional RTEP Committees
The Sub Regional RTEP Committees (SRRTEP) provide a forum to review Subregional RTEP upgrades and to provide input and recommendations to the TEAC:
Planning Committee
The Planning Committee is established under the Operating Agreement WEB | PDF and has the responsibility to review and recommend system planning strategies and policies as well as planning and engineering designs for the PJM bulk power supply system to assure the continued ability of the member companies to operate reliably and economically in a competitive market environment. Additionally, the committee makes recommendations regarding generating capacity reserve requirement and demand-side valuation factors.
Reliability Planning Process Working Group
The Regional Planning Process Working Group enables a stakeholder process to evaluate and make recommendations to the Members Committee to reform the present interconnection queue and study processes.
Transmission System Footprint Map
PJM encompasses major U.S. load centers from Illinois’s western border to the Atlantic coast including the metropolitan areas in and around Baltimore, Chicago, Columbus, Dayton, Newark and northern New Jersey, Norfolk, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Richmond and Washington D.C.
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